The Book Thief Literary Analysis

Therefore, Rudy and Liesel are also like Bruno in their innocence as kids, and how they refuse to let race, color and religion to stop them from seeing others as their equals. This further shows that kids are often innocent and unaware of these boundaries, but societies try to inforce them on kids.
Through using characters as symbols to represent different groups of people within Germany at the time, Zusak offers a different perspective, a rather positive one, that is not often documented by history books, but one that he grew up hearing about, which is that not all Germans embraced the Nazi ideology, not all Germans wanted to have the Jews killed. He wanted to say that when they could, those characters did not hesitate to help the others.
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The Book Thief reflects how the Nazi ideology gained power through censoring the words the public could have received from other platforms by burning all the books they did not approve of, especially in the scene in the novel where they celebrate Hitler’s birthday by burning books (ch. Hitler’s birthday). Furthermore, this theme is also represented in a dream Liesel once has. At the beginning of the novel, Liesel has a dream where she sees Hitler speak at a rally and is interested in his words, however, when she wakes up, she finds that her brother has died. This dream is therefore a symbol of Hitler’s reign. He initially got people interested in his words through his book Mein Kampf, but eventually, he killed people and created genocides. This notion is further expressed in a story within The Book Thief, one that is written by the Jew character Max, to Liesel. In this story, Max basically writes that Hitler initially had nothing but his words which he used to bewitch people, and finally he created an army for himself. His words were like seeds that he planted, that grew into a tree, and finally a